{"id":18179,"date":"2019-01-30T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2019-01-29T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:57:06","slug":"ace-frehley-fires-back-at-gene-simmons-scathing-interview-with-guitar-world-the-gloves-are-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18179","title":{"rendered":"Ace Frehley Fires Back at Gene Simmons’ Scathing Interview With Guitar World: “The Gloves are Off!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a new interview with Guitar World, Gene Simmons<\/strong> said that appearances by Frehley and Criss have not been taken off the table.<\/p>\n

“Ace and Peter have gotten three chances,” he said. “They were in and out of the band \u2014 fired \u2014 three times. For drugs, alcohol, bad behavior, being unprofessional \u2026 they weren’t carrying their load. … So the short answer to your question is we’d love to have Ace and Peter join us here and there. And if they don’t, it’s not going to be because of us. But they’re never going to be in KISS again.\u00a0 <\/strong>Three times is the charm; ‘I promise I’ll pull out’ doesn’t work. It’s the boy who cried wolf: ‘Oh, I’ve been straight for a million years.’ Terrific! Have a good life! … Would we welcome Ace or Peter to jump up onstage for a song or two? Of course. Could we depend on either Ace of Peter to do a full set night after night? Not on your fucking life.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ace Frehley<\/strong> took to his Official Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a> to comment on Gene’s interview:<\/p>\n

Gene, your memory is really incorrect!\u2026I was NEVER FIRED from KISS, I quit twice (not 3-times) of my own free will, because you and Paul are control freaks, untrustworthy and were too difficult to work with!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your slanderous remarks about my bad habits over the years has cost me millions of dollars and now that I\u2019m over 12-years sober you’re still saying I can\u2019t be trusted to play a whole nights show! Well that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve been doing for the last 12-years with different configurations of \u201cThe Ace Frehley Band\u201d to you and Paul\u2019s dismay!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also the most successful solo artist to come out of the original KISS lineup , and proud of it!\u2026You and Paul have tried to derail my solo career multiple times over the years unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tried to be nice and friendly by inviting you and Paul to perform on my past albums for eOne Music, give each of you guys one of my prized Gibson Les Paul 59\u2019 models, but today\u2019s comments have made me realize you\u2019re just an asshole and a sex addict who\u2019s being sued by multiple Women, and you\u2019re just trying to sweep it all under the carpet!<\/p>\n

The icing on the cake was when you groped my wife and propositioned her in Los Angeles at the Capitol Records building behind my back, when I was trying to help you out at one of your \u201cVault Experiences\u201d which I only found out about several weeks later\u2026she was planning on pursuing a suit against you, but I told her to call it off!!!<\/p>\n

Well now the gloves are off after your terrible comments today and I\u2019m thinking that this really may be \u201cThe End Of The Road Tour\u201d for you guys!!!<\/p>\n

Without a complete and heartfelt apology, an offer to give me my old job back, and removing Tommy from the Throne that I created\u2026 THE SHIT WILL HIT THE FAN AND THEY\u2019LL BE NO STOPPING IT-IT\u2019S ON!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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In a new interview with Guitar World, Gene Simmons said that appearances by Frehley and Criss have not been taken off the table. “Ace and Peter have gotten three chances,” he said. “They were in and out of the band \u2014 fired \u2014 three times. For drugs, alcohol, bad behavior, being unprofessional \u2026 they weren’t carrying their load. … So the short answer to your question is we’d love to have Ace and Peter join us here and there. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[8,2087,2080,2085,2077,180,2078,2090,605,2135,2084,2086,2079,2076,2088,2089,1844,2081,2082,2083],"class_list":["post-18179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","tag-ace-frehley","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-kiss-2","tag-kiss-army","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-music-blog","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock-blog","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kiss-gene-ace-1383873995-1548817866383.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}